After a sun-filled cocktail hour in the glass atrium known as The Concord Cafe, the guests filed into the gorgeous ballroom and cheered as the bride & groom made their grand entrance to a Special Mix of the popular Black Eyed Peas made especially by Steve Cie, the Emcee for the event. They then took their rightful place on the center of the dance floor as DJ Mike Wieder of Ultimate Sounds Entertainment played I Knew I loved You by Savage Garden

After a poignant toast by Best Man Matt Brown, and Matron of Honor Annmarie Sperling McCarron, Father Dan Cahill of St Ann Church, Keansburg, offered a special blessing and grace.

Our good friend, brother of the bride, Glen Geraghty , gave the bride away and had the honor of a special dance with her.

Steve Cie Entertainment provided Emcee, DJ Entertainment, Plasma Video Screen, and “ZAP” Photo services for the event.

A special, memorable moment occurred when DJ Mike Wieder, unwittingly caught the bride’s bouquet, which Jami mistakenly over-threw to the throng of single ladies, and those looking for a second chance.

As usual, the Sheraton staff served a sumptuous dinner with their normal excellent service.

The guests seemed to prefer a “high-energy” mix of music from the 80’s, 90’s, and today’s pop as they kept the dance floor filled for the entire night!

At the conclusion of the five hour long event, many of the guests moved into the Sheraton’s Lounge for two more hours of partying and Karaoke.

Best wishes to Jami & Erik, and again, thanks for letting us be a part of their very special day!

After 2 decades, this exposition continues to build momentum, propelling the DJ Entertainment industry into a recognized professional category of talented, passion driven entrepreneurs.

This year’s edition featured some of the greatest talents in the industry sharing their secrets to success!

Held in Atlantic City New Jersey’s Trump Taj Mahal, this year’s Expo heralded in Day One as the largest attended opening day in its 20 year history.

Once again, The New Jersey Disc Jockey Network members played key roles throughout the 4 day exposition.

Day One presented 7, yes 7 great content – filled seminars! These seminars cover contemporary topics relative to MCs, Gear, Presentation, Business Practices, and Motivation.

I selected the following seminars to attend.

Sound Connection Entertainment owner and New Jersey Disc Jockey Network member Jason Jani, opened the seminar schedule with an intriguing presentation, to a packed conference room, on how he has managed to balloon his business in the last few years to top-notch status. The seminar, entitled “The Brand of You” was enticing, informative, and inspiring.

Returning for his 3rd year, DJ Times DJ Entertainer of The Year finalist, and New Jersey Disc Jockey member, MikeWieder, owner of Ultimate Sounds Entertainment, delivered a sensational seminar entitled “You Don’t Have To Be Jewish to Book Mitzvahs”. Co-hosted by Chicago’s Shani Barret, in depth explanations of culture, preparation, order of customary events, and traditions.

All Star Wedding MCs’ Secrets Revealed was helmed by 2009 DJ of The Year Steve Moody, owner of Baltimore Maryland’s Steve Moody’s Music Connection, and New Jersey Disc Jockey Network Member. Featuring a half dozen successful experts in the field, attendees were feted with several nuggets for success!

The evening of Day One featured a private party at The Casbah featuring a talented line up of past DJ of The Year winners, and Black Hole recording artist JES.

This was followed by The Denon DJ Party featuring Jason Jani and VJ Roonie G.Incredible music mixes and video presentations “wowed” the crowd!

Day Two saw the opening of the Exhibit Floor with more than 70 exhibitors offering their wares at expo show prices. The talk of the town was the battery operated no wires DMX uplighting offered by several vendors.

A half dozen high quality seminars were offered on Day Two. I attended two of these.
Adam Weitz’, owner of Philadelphia based A Sharp Productions presented How an “Event Director” Can Change Your Business showed his secret to managing multilevel entertainment packages in today’s challenging market.

The day closed with The Annual New Jersey Disc Jockey Network Meeting featuring Peter Merry. The noted industry author, trainer and consultant delivered a very inspiring seminar entitled, “ Weddings- Make it Fun!”

The evening of Day Two provide the annual Promo Only / Pioneer Party at The House of Blues. Hosted by Joey Fatone and Blake Lewis, the show featured live performances by Mike Posner, Kelly Rowland, Shaggy, Salt-N-Pepa, Judy Torres, Alexis Jordan, Auburn, Jessica Jarrel, Jump Smokers, Kaci Battaglia, Tiffany Dunn & Tino Coury. The more than 6 hour event was undoubtedly the party highlight of the week!

For the hearty attendees, a second talent filled party ensued at TheBorgata featuring VJ Roonie G, Enferno, Travie McCoy, HYPER Crush, Jump Smokers, and Gibere Forte!

Day Three provide 8 additional seminars as well as the keynote speech by Sean Hollywood Hamilton. Highlights of the day included Denon’s DJ Technology Focus Group, Chauvet’s Lighting Seminar, Weddings – How to sell to Bride – and the closing seminar of the Expo—Darryl Jacobsen’s fast paced, action packed, Dances and Games DJs Play. This seminar featured segments by some of the most notable DJ entertainers in the industry, including Mike Walter, Sean “BIB DADDY” McKee, John Rozz, Johnny Kelly, Mike Wieder, Betsy Fischer, Laura Gibbons, Steve Moody, Sid Vanderpool, and others!

The evening of Day Three featured Mike Walter’s DJ Times DJ Entertainer of The Year Competition at The Casbah. With ten high quality finalist, the panel of judges were hard-pressed to declare the winners. New Jersey Disc Jockey Network members Betsy Fischer and George Kramedas took home titles! Betsy Fischer, for Best Dance and Runner up DJ of The Year, while George Kramedas won for Best Choreography. Philadelphia based Adam Weitz won DJ Entertainer of The Year with an enticing act that captivated the audience, and, apparently the judges!

Day Four essentially was the Exhibit Showroom and finally the Big Give-Away of DJ Gear around 2 PM

All in all, DJ Times XX was one of the finest expos in its history, and one of the most attended as well.

The event started with a luxurious cocktail hour in the lounge area, with music provided by an accomplished pianist playing an assortment of American Songbook, Classical and Pop tunes. The cocktail hour was followed by a Grand Entrance, First Dance, Toast and finally a Blessing by the wedding ceremony officiant Father Dan Cahill of St Ann Church.

Steve Cie Entertainment provided emcee, music, intelligent lighting, and “ZAP” Photography displayed on a Plasma Video Screen for the event.

Emcee Steve Cie announced the bridal party as DJ Jake Jacobsen mixed the music which was pre-selected by the bride.

Musical requests ranged from 1950’s American Songbook tunes, 60’s Rock’n’Roll, Old & New School Disco, Hip-Hop and current Top 40 Pop tunes! Group line dancing packed the dance floor, accompanied by a complete Intelligent Light Show and Illuminated FaCIEd ™ DJ Frontboard.

Besides packing the dance floor with traditional line dances, some memorable moments were captured during the “Circle of Love” dance, as every guest participated.

Family & Friends surround the newlyweds

While the storm of the decade raged outside, inside the cozy, warm décor of The Conover Road Banquet Center, the Getto and Kircher families were celebrating the “Monsoon Wedding” of Allissa & Ryan.

The gorgeous venue took on an added sense of elegance with Up Lighting, stage and dance floor lighting illuminating the spacious room with color.

A 1700 Watt Mackie Sound System reinforced the sounds of Allissa’s new father-in-law as he sang and played guitar for the bride & groom’s first dance.

There wasn’t a dry eye in the crowd as Allissa’s dad, Fred Getto, escorted his daughter to the dance floor for a dance to one of his favorite tunes, “That’s How Strong My Love Is” by Otis Redding.

A gourmet buffet , provided by award winning caterer, Tastefully Yours by Joyce, www.tastefullyyoursbyjoyce.com treated the guests to a sumptuous meal.

While most of the surrounding Monmouth County area was blacked out due to trees and poles knocked down by the ongoing raging storm outside, uninterrupted electricity was provided by The Colts Neck Volunteer Fire Company.

It was at this event , that the newly designed 6 Panel , 54” high FaCIEd was unveiled publicly for the first time. It was a “brilliant” success!

The guests packed the dance floor throughout the evening under the splendor of the atmosphere enhancing intelligent light show, as Steve Cie led the revelers in familiar dance steps such as The Cha Cha Slide, Cupid Shuffle, Cotton-Eye Joe, Conga , and The Circle of Love. A well orchestrated Dollar Dance to the music of Kenny Vance & The Planotones, capped off the group set, as a set of Top Twenty Music ensued.

One of Allissa’s favorite artists is Michael Jackson, and a specially mixed 15 minute long medley by Steve Cie, created specifically for this occasion, packed the dance floor!

All in all, “The Monsoon Wedding” will undoubtedly be remembered for a long time to come!

Special thanks to Allissa & Ryan Kircher for the privilege of being a part of their very special day!

Steve Cie Premier DJ Booth

The event was organized by Nicole Armelino, Jade D’Agostino, Colleen Cook, Bob Brady and Cindy Daniele.

Parents Night Out Committee

A basket raffle was held to help raise funds for the organization, with a dozen or so gift baskets donated by local supporters and merchants.

Gift Basket Raffle

Former Pop Warner Football President Kevin Gallogy was honored for his dedication and service to the well known and very successful Holmdel Pop Warner Football Organization.

As Google and Bing lead the search engine crowd, new innovative marketing ideas are spawned to sell advertising to businesses geared strictly to driving consumers to their web sites.

In the advent of SEO – Search Engine Optimization – services selling their methods to optimize your web site so that your site pops up on popular searches, the leading search engines have devised a method to control “who’s up first” on the search page. They now have the means to lock out certain popular search keywords, selling the privilege of utilizing them to gain search engine positioning.

What will they think of next? How much are you willing to pay for the ideal keyword that drives viewers to your site?

Hmmm…. A dentist might want—”painless dentistry”
A pizza joint—–”large cheese pie”
A dairy—–”got milk”

A new business is born. It sells keywords!

Portable DJ Hero Stage

 Spectacular and Exciting add-ons for your special event! Sensational ROCK BAND and HERO, DJ HERO stages brought to your event venue to add spectacular ambience for you and your guests.

“Green Screen’ technology in video and photo that can put you and your  guests into any theatrical setting for those memorable once-in-a-lifetime visual keepsakes. 

Hollywood Voice Over Stage

You’ve experienced karaoke for years  –  now experience  HVO – Hollywood Voice Over! Did you ever think to yourself I could say those lines better

and/or I could have written a funnier line then that? Here is your chance; we have some of the most popular movies of all time from Austin Power’s, Airplane, Star War’s and much more.

Guests speak the lines on the monitor in sync with the actual movie or ad lib their own lines. The result; a DVD favor to take home with the movie segment and your voice speaking the part of the characters. Nothing has ever been this much fun to do and this funny to watch!  Dozens of  Extra Entertainment packages to help make your special event, Exciting, Spectacular and Unique!  http://stevecie.com/ee.htm

Extra Entertainment

Conan "COCO" O'Brien

It was high time for Jay Leno to retire and turn over the reigns to a younger host, and Conan O’Brien had indeed paid his dues to be rewarded with the most coveted position on television. But NBC couldn’t simply have a nice orderly Bye Bye Leno transition. They had to screw up prime time programming to inject a useless Jay Leno Hour at 10 PM.

NBC’s big money saving idea eventually cost them nearly $100 Million as you consider the reported $45 Million in severance pay to Conan and his staff, along with the expense of a new $50 Million Studio for the show.

NBC has made some real blunders over the years, and this latest fiasco should keep their ratings in the dumper for a long time to come.

Remember, this is the network that cancelled the original Star Trek Series claiming it wasn’t rating worthy and had no lasting power!

It’s also the network that interrupted the 1968 AFL Football Playoff Game when in the final minutes of the game,  had a tide turning ending play, instead went to a Holiday Special called Heidi!

 That fall day in Oakland, California was a showdown between two of the best teams in the American Football League–the defending champion Oakland Raiders and the upstart New York Jets, a team that had become a force to reckon with, thanks to its able and flashy quarterback Joe Namath. Because the game was set to begin at 4:00 Eastern Time (1:00 PM in the Western time zone), there was no concern the game would run over into prime time. Most football games usually took less than three hours, so NBC felt confident it could air the game within the three-hour period, allowing the much-hyped “Heidi” to air on schedule.

What the Peacock Network did not count on was a nail-biter. Both teams were in fine form, with the lead changing hands often. By late in the fourth quarter, a 26-yard field goal by Jim Turner put the Jets ahead 32 to 29. By that time, it was just before 7:00 PM Eastern Time, and the game had just 65 seconds left to play. With so little time left, it seemed there was no way–short of a miracle–the Jets could lose. Immediately, viewers were treated to NBC’s animated peacock colour logo, before “Heidi” went on the air.  Here’s what they missed:

The game resumed after the commercial break, and the Jets suffered a penalty, giving control to Oakland. Charlie Smith ran for 43 yards for a touchdown, putting the Raiders ahead 36-to-32. But during the kick-off for the next play, the Jets’ Earl Christy allowed the football to land on the two-yard line, giving the Raiders’ Preston Ridlehuber a chance to grab the pigskin and score a SECOND touchdown for Oakland. The final score: Raiders 43, Jets 32–one of the most sensational plays in American football history.

The fallout was tremendous. It wasn’t bad for the Raiders, who later that year defeated the Jets in the AFC games and went on to win Super Bowl Three with a 16-to-7 victory over the Baltimore Colts. But the National Football League was so angry it demanded future broadcast contracts to include a provision that required the networks to air all football games in their entirety. The “Heidi Game” was one of those rare television events that caused a chain reaction–and proved once and for all the popularity of professional football in the United States. Perhaps the best final words came from Val Pinchbeck, who was the National Football League’s chief of broadcasting: “Probably the most significant factor to come out of ‘Heidi’ was, whatever you do, you better not leave an NFL football game….It sure let you know that you better not take my football away from me at 7:00 PM.”

Well, it seems NBC still hasn’t learned it’s lesson when it comes to Prime Time Programming!

Bride's Choice Award 2010

The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds.

Steve Cie Entertainment is among the top five percent of all vendors in the Wedding Wire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers.

“We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the Wedding Wire Community” said Timothy Chi, Wedding Wire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.”

We are happy to announce that Steve Cie Entertainment is among the very best Wedding DJ Entertainers  within the Wedding Wire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings. We would like to thank our past newlyweds for nominating us for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™.

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at www.weddingwire.com/stevecie

Today’s bride has so many options and choices available  that planning her wedding has indeed become a daunting task. To help her, Steve Cie Entertainment taps our more than 35 years of wedding reception experience to help facilitate the execution of  “the perfect wedding”!

Steve Cie Entertainment , recipient of the 2009 and 2010 Bridal Choice Award, is proud to be recognized by The Wedding Wire, The Knot, Celebrations Magazine,  Wed Plan.net, We DJ.com, Ammend Publishing, and Greater Media Newspapers as one of New Jersey’s oldest and reputable providers of Premier DJ Entertainment. We specialize in “Personalized Service”.

Our pledge of Elegance, Class and Distinction is our business cornerstone!

Today’s contemporary bride considers such options as Plasma Screen Video Monitors, “Love Story” Video Montage, Venue Up-Lighting, Live Video Simulcast for relatives unable to attend the reception, “ZAP” Photos during the reception, and the list of options goes on and on and on.

Steve Cie Entertainment has positioned itself to offer all of these options to or clients. We also provide our client with their own “Event Planning” Web Site, where all of the details and specifications of the event can be filled in to a plan to help organize and orchestrate your ” once in-a-lifetime” event.

And now, Steve Cie is an Ordained Minister who can perform your non-denominational wedding ceremony as well! Your own personalized vows help make your wedding unique!

For all of your wedding reception needs, call Steve Cie Entertainment and let us show you how we can help make your dream reception come to reality!